game development – Kennedy Computer Science Academy

How to make a basic text-based game in Python

1) Import ‘time.’

It will be used to create a timer for a clear-screen.

2)
This creates a waiting timer, which counts down in milliseconds.

3)
This will clear the screen of all text.

4)Your also going to need to have something to count progress in the game, something as simple as this will do:

Your code will need this, and will add to this to represent furthering the game.

5) Create several directories that represent the possible actions a player can choose from.
For example:

6) Put the entire game within a ‘while’ loop:

This forces the code to continually loop so the game doesn’t crash if a player re-does a previously used command.

7) At the beginning of while the loop, declare the cls(); and create a simple statement:

The ‘cls’ clears the screen, and the newly-created ‘response’ will allow the player to actually make inputs to the game, so it actually becomes a playable game.

8) Create many, many elif (else if) statements. Every elif will represent an action and progress level. The simplest way to have it would be:

9) For displaying text to the user:

10) For progression in a game, under any of the elifs, then place this under the code:

The last three steps will be repeated many times, and will generally line up to make a full story, possibly with extreme amounts of flavor text.

How to Create a Randomly Generated Game Board

This How to will show you how to create a randomly generated 8×8 map using C# code. The code does require some sprites to be useful, but any sprite will be able to be used to make your own version!

Hope this helps!

Create your variables as public GameObject[] (name);. This will allow you to assign sprites to each individual group and will place them appropriately throughout the game board.
Now, using for loops to prepare to generate a new board
Now run a script, preperably named apprioprately (boardSetup), and set up a new GameObject to be the board. Then use for loops to fill in the outsides and insides of the board.
Next, run a command that allows us to randomly layout objects, with a minimum and maximum set, which should be set as varibles at the beginning of the script. (ex. Public int maximum = 8;)
Now we will actually be creating the board by calling the functions we created above and also adding how many enemies will be on per level, with a mathematic equation.
Once done with the script, go to Unity and create a empty child under the GameObject tab. Rename the object GameManager and add the script to it.
Then select the desired sprites for each category (outside wall, floor, food, enemy) and using shirt + click or cntl + click, drag and drop the prefabs onto the script.
After filling in all the categories, drag the GameManager object into the prefabs folder and delete the object for the hierarchy.

Animation Tutorial

Below are pictures to my process in creating sprite animations in unity with captions to help you step by step. I made my sprites in adobe illustrator and photoshop. Keep in mind that you need to save copies of the files as illustrator, photoshop, and .png files just in case you need to edit, or reuse the files. Click on the photos for a full view of the screen.

be sure to save this to a safe file by clicking the three circles under location

Find the location of the files that you will use as a sprite. They need to be saved as .png files.

select them all by clicking on them all once while holding the control key

once selected, drag them into the gray space below. This is your unity assets folder.

once you have that done you need to open the sprites by clicking the arrows on the side of each picture.

then select the inside box ( the darker one) and click create, and go down to animation.

next you want to name your animation. I named mine Anim 1 to keep it simple

then select the gray box sprites again, right click, select create, and then go down to controller. Name it the same as the animation to keep things organized.

double click the controller. Now you should be in the controller window

Drag the animation into the controller window.

Then in the right hand window (inspector) find the box that’s labeled loop time. This will make the animation continue to play.

move the first light gray sprite into the scene window by clicking and dragging it.

Finally you need to double click your sprite to enter the sprite inspector window (right hand side of the screen). Once you have the window open, drag the controller into the lower half of the inspector window. After that just press play and the sprite will begin to move.

Finished Roguelike 2D Game

The (should be) finished version of the game is linked below. After playing the game, if you could take the survey to give me some feedback that would be awesome! Thanks 🙂

To play the game ask me, (Im wearing the Iowa State t shirt), and I can have you play the game on the computer next to mine. Unfortunately the file size was too large to directly link. Sorry 🙁

Survey: https://goo.gl/forms/jheK5WK9LzX9QxB12

Gracias!